Posted Nov 20th 2009 2:15PM by Erik Davis
Filed under: Fandom, NSFW, Trailers and Clips
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You've read
all the reviews and
interviews, and watched all the spoof videos. Most of you reading this have probably already watched the film, too. Today, as
The Twilight Saga: New Moon finally reaches theaters, it sorta feels like the day after Christmas -- all this hype, work and constant coverage building up to the release of just one film ... and then it's over. Now the "real" fans will begin their endless geeked-out debates on their own fansites, and the rest of us will talk about the film's boffo box office while preparing for three weeks worth of nonstop promo for JAMES F*CKING CAMERON'S AVATAR! ROAR!
So while you drink the last of your blood energy drink, and begin breaking down the Bella and Edward Nativity Scene that's currently on your front lawn, why not let our good buddy
Kevin Smith have the last word on all things
Twilight. During his panel at this past San Diego Comic-Con, Smith went off for about four minutes on the Twilight Phenomenon, and took us through the experience of watching a clip from
New Moon while thousands of young girls screamed their silly little heads off. It's a very amusing clip (that's homemade, so excuse the jerky camera movements), and if it's the last thing you watch before folks begin ramping up their
Eclipse coverage, you'll find yourself a happier and more well-adjusted human being because of it.
Watch the clip after the jump, though be warned that it comes with plenty of foul language.
Continue reading The Last Word(s) on 'Twilight' Belong to Kevin Smith
Posted Nov 19th 2009 8:32PM by Peter Hall
Filed under: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, 20th Century Fox, Trailers and Clips
There is a
new trailer out for
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, 20th Century Fox' bid to get in on the financial treasures to be mined from film adaptation of young-adult fantasy novels, and for most people it should serve as the first real glimpse into what kind of an imaginary world Chris Columbus, after having ushered in the first two Harry Potter films, is bringing to life on the big screen. I know little about the series of fantasy-adventure novels by
Rick Riordan, so it's nice to now have some clarification beyond the film's early teasers, which were merely announcing the title.
In this feature trailer you'll actually get a cursory look into the life of the titular Percy Jackson (
Logan Lerman, who played Christian Bale's eldest son in
3:10 to Yuma), a teen who is unknowingly a descendant of the Greek God Poseidon, as well as glimpses of the film's nice array of adult actors countering the mostly young cast. We've got a look at
Pierce Brosnan as Percy's guide to Greek mythology, as well as glimpses of
Rosario Dawson as Persephone and
Uma Thurman sporting an unhealthy amount of snakes around her head as Medusa, one of the several antagonists Percy will have to cross in order to recover a lightning bolt he is accused of having stolen from Zeus.
The film will be making its bow on February 10th, which means that between this and
Clash of the Titans, Greek mythology is going to be undergoing a welcome, mini-resurgence in the first quarter of next year. So if you thought the trailer for the latter, which features plenty of big budget action and CGI beasties wasn't up your fantasy alley, give this trailer, embedded below, for Percy Jackson & the Olympians a try.
Continue reading New 'Percy Jackson' Trailer Reveals Uma Thurman's Snake Head
Posted Nov 19th 2009 2:08PM by Jen Yamato
Filed under: Drama, Romance, Fandom, Newsstand, Movie Marketing, Trailers and Clips
Ladies, I have important news: we've got another
Robert Pattinson movie to "squeee" over. The
New Moon heartthrob stars in Summit's romantic drama
Remember Me, in which RPattz apparently gets to -- dare I say it? -- act his little butt off. By which I mean, throwing punches and yelling at James Bond and being sensitive and making out with
Emilie de Ravin, all while rocking an American accent! Sigh. I can't wait.
Ok, so
Remember Me is a gimme - of course every
Twilight fan is going to run to buy tickets to watch
Edward Cullen Rob Pattinson be romantic and emo and, most importantly, have a sex scene or two or three. (I'm extrapolating from the one shot of Pattinson and de Ravin with an L sheet covering them in bed in the trailer.) And your boyfriends and husbands probably won't want to be dragged to see it any more than they did the
Twilight films. But judging from the very first trailer,
Remember Me might just offer Pattinson his first big chance to prove his acting chops in a widely seen release, following dramatic but quirky turns in indies like
Little Ashes and
How to Be.
Watch the trailer debut for Remember Me after the jump, stat! Continue reading OMG! Rob Pattinson In the 'Remember Me' Trailer!
Posted Nov 18th 2009 10:11PM by Monika Bartyzel
Filed under: Action, Comedy, Horror, Trailers and Clips
It's time for a brief reprieve from the romantic battles between painted-on vampiric pecs and CG fur. As you might know, the Spierig Brothers have whipped up an excellently dark vampiric flick called
Daybreakers, which
William Goss reviewed last month. The film is gearing up to hit screens on January 8, 2010, and in the midst of all the other vampire chatter out there, Lionsgate has whipped up a rather excellent public service announcement which you can see after the jump.
If you have any questions or concerns about the movie, this PSA should answer them because it's a dead-on representation of the feature. It explains the film while also managing to describe the tone and style of the pic: dark, sleek, modern, and scary with a healthy dose of ridiculousness and comedy mixed in. These things might sound like they clash -- and to be honest, they do a little bit -- but not in any way that ruins the movie.
You know that whoever made this clip had a perfect understanding of the film and could sum everything up with delivery rather than unnecessary exposition. (Yes, there's a voiceover in this, but it's different than saying: "
Daybreakers serves chills and laughs.") If only we could get this with all the trailers and marketing that floods our way...
Does the PSA tantalize you into seeing
Daybreakers?
[via
CHUD]
Continue reading For the Real Vampire Lovers: A 'Daybreakers' PSA
Posted Nov 18th 2009 7:03PM by Peter Martin
Filed under: Drama, Independent, Thrillers, Deals, IFC, Distribution, Cinematical Indie, Trailers and Clips
Indie Roundup: Your quick guide to what's new and upcoming in the independent film community.
Deals. Our friends at
indieWIRE report that
Cracks has been
acquired by IFC Films, which plans to release it next year via its IFC in Theaters platform. The film is the feature directorial debut of
Jordan Scott, daughter of Ridley Scott.
Eva Green (
The Dreamers,
Casino Royale) stars as a teacher and diving coach in an Irish boarding school for orphaned girls; Juno Temple, Imogen Poots, and Maria Valverde also star. "The trials and tribulations, for both the students and their unorthodox teacher," writes Kurt Halfyard at
Twitch, "gradually are brought to a boil that subverts many of the typical paths in either a coming of age story or a typical 'school-girl dormitory' tale."
Michael Caine stars as
Harry Brown, a retired Marine who determines to clean up his neighborhood after his best friend is killed. Samuel Goldwyn Films picked up theatrical rights to the thriller;
indieWIRE notes that the film opened in the UK last weekend, though the US release date has not yet been announced. Daniel Barber directed. UK site
Pure Movies calls
Harry Brown "a superior offering – albeit a gritty and bleak one."
On Demand / Online Viewing. Check out
On Hallowed Ground, available exclusively
this month on Babelgum. Andre Braugher narrates the documentary, which explores Rucker Park, a basketball court in Harlem where legendary future NBA players, and those who should have been famous, once played. Speaking of gritty players, if you're curious to catch up with Troy Duffy's
The Boondock Saints, it'll finally be coming to video on demand in January.
After the jump: watch trailers for Cracks (absolutely gorgeous) and Harry Brown (dark and intense)!Continue reading Indie Roundup: 'Cracks,' 'Harry Brown' Deals and Trailers
Posted Nov 18th 2009 4:02PM by Jessica Barnes
Filed under: Romance, Fandom, Trailers and Clips
Teen icon
Miley Cyrus can't do anything these days without causing a stir of some kind. The only thing I can't figure out is if she does it on purpose or just has a bad case of her mouth running away with her. During a recent backstage interview with the singer/actress, Cyrus was asked the defining question of our generation: "Team Edward or Team Jacob?" Well, it turns out the answer is neither, and she told journalists, "I've never seen [Twilight], nor will I. I don't believe in it. I don't like vampires, I don't like the wolf that pops out of the screen when I'm watching TV at night, I don't want anything to do with it." (Oh snap! There's going to be a tween-off. Just think, it will be like
West Side Story but with glitter and blond wigs!) Personally, I think she was trying to make a joke, and if she was, her comedy skills definitely need a little work.
Now, the cynic in me would mark the fact that this latest headline to spring from the tween sensation is just in time for the release of the trailer of her new romantic weepie,
The Last Song. So what better way to get teen girls' attention than to bad-mouth their hunk(s) of the moment?
Last Song stars Cyrus as a piano prodigy reconnecting with her father (played by
Greg Kinnear) and falling in love, but this is a
Nicholas Sparks story, so I can only assume somebody is going to die or get a horrible disease before the flick is through. The film is Cyrus' latest attempt to shed her
Hannah Montana image and was the next step in becoming a serious actress. But now we'll have to see if she lives long enough to avoid a Cullen-inspired vendetta.
After the jump: the trailer for The Last Song and Cyrus' take on Twilight...Continue reading Miley Cyrus Hates Twilight, Debuts New Trailer
Posted Nov 18th 2009 2:45PM by Christopher Campbell
Filed under: Comedy, Foreign Language, Sony Classics, Remakes and Sequels, Trailers and Clips
The term remake has predominantly negative connotations, but once in awhile we see proof that a redo can be a good thing. Just look at Werner Herzog's new film,
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, which isn't quite a remake of Abel Ferrara's
Bad Lieutenant so much as it's a stand-alone sequel or simply another filmmaker's take on the same sort of character explored in the original. It's enough to make me wish we could have seen what
Spielberg and Will Smith's version of
Oldboy would have looked like.
And here's another perfect example of a good remake:
Zhang Yimou's version of the Coen Brothers' neo-noir cult classic
Blood Simple, which
Peter excitedly wrote about back in July.
The film now has a title,
The First Gun (aka
Amazing Tales: Three Guns), and an international trailer, which shows us just how different Zhang's version is. The Chinese filmmaker, acclaimed for numerous Oscar-nominated films, whether recognized in the foreign, cinematography or costume categories, recently confirmed that he added a lot of things and changed the whole tone from the Coens' version.
"We brought in a lot of comedic elements and changed the relationship and personalities of the characters," Zhang told Chinese website
Sina.com.
Continue reading When Remakes Look Awesome: Zhang Yimou's "Blood Simple" Redo Has a Trailer, Rap Song
Posted Nov 17th 2009 6:45PM by Monika Bartyzel
Filed under: Obits, Trailers and Clips, Stars in Rewind
Attention children of the '80s: If you haven't already heard, television's
Ken Ober died at the age of 52. The cause of death is not yet determined, although
his agent noted that Ober "complained of headaches and flu-like symptoms on Saturday night." While he produced shows like
Mind of Mencia and
The New Adventures of Old Christine, he's probably best known for his time as the host of MTV's '80s quiz show:
Remote Control.
Remember it? Three players would get strapped into arm chairs, answer questions about television and film (basically anything that could be found on TV), find food raining down on their heads, and get entertained by the likes of Colin Quinn, Kari Wuhrer, Denis Leary, and Adam Sandler. It was part classic MTV ridiculousness, and part media junky geek party.
In memory of the host and show, I thought I'd take us back in time for a few movie-centric bits after the jump. First, there will be
Adam Sandler as the awkward "Stud Boy" while Ober doesn't think about the innuendo before saying "I'd love to give it to her." After that, scribe
Zak Penn, who wrote flicks like
PCU,
Elektra, and
X-Men: The Last Stand, pops up as a contestant. Now the latter is a little confusing, since the Zachary on the show says he's a biochem major at USC, and bios have him graduating from Wesleyan, but one look at the vid and
this pic should quell confusion.
Ken Ober, you're missed already.
Continue reading Stars in Rewind: Ken Ober & 'Remote Control'
Posted Nov 17th 2009 2:45PM by Jessica Barnes
Filed under: Music & Musicals, New Releases, Nicole Kidman, Trailers and Clips
I may not be the biggest devotee of movie musicals, but I've been keeping an eye on Rob Marshall's adaptation of
Nine (the Tony Award-winning musical) since the production was first
announced back in 2007. The thought of some of the coolest chicks in Hollywood with
Daniel Day Lewis in a musical about
8 1/2? Well, count me in. Despite early casting changes and rumblings about Lewis' singing abilities, I've held out hope for the flick, and now that the film's Christmas release date is a little over a month away the early reviews are trickling in. First up is AICN who scored an
early review from a source going by the name of Tobby (You can read the entire review over there, but be warned, it's a little spoilery)
So let's start with the good news: according to this review, the film is pretty darn good. The reviewer had nothing but praise for
Marion Cotillard as Lewis' wife, and even
Fergie gets some love as the prostitute, Saraghina. As for Lewis in the role of the troubled director Guido Contini, it turns out those rumors of his lack of singing ability were just rumors, and he makes out pretty good in the review for the limited singing he does in the film (two songs) -- and I think we all knew his acting was never going to be the problem.
Of course, the film is far from perfect and there are some rough patches according to this reviewier. Most of the scorn was directed towards Nicole Kidman's performance as Contini's muse, and unfortunately one of the other problems with the film is
Kate Hudson (who plays an American Vogue reporter) in what was described as a throwaway role. Bad timing, perhaps, now that Hudson's musical number,
Cinema Italiano, is the bulk of the latest trailer for the film.
After the jump: Hudson's Go-Go debut and a musical layman's review of Cinema Italiano...Continue reading 'Nine' Buzz: Kate Hudson Music Video, Early Review
Posted Nov 17th 2009 12:45PM by Erik Davis
Filed under: Fandom, Trailers and Clips
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As a pretty big fan of
Richard Linklater (the writer, the filmmaker, the artist, the dude), I was totally bummed to hear that the guy is having ridiculous amounts of trouble getting another film off the ground. As
we told you earlier, the three potential projects he was working on (
That's What I'm Talking About, Liars (A to E) and
School of Rock 2) have all but been erased for various reasons (even though all three have tremendous commercial potential), not to mention that his latest film,
Me and Orson Welles (which is definitely worth the watch) has been delayed for over a year. It's disheartening to see a wickedly talented filmmaker like Linklater get shoved off to the side, but as Jeffrey Anderson
pointed out in his latest 400 Screens, 400 Blows column, perhaps part of it has to do with folks just not being interested in coming-of-age films right now (see;
Whip It, Adventureland), which is the type of stuff Linklater specializes in.
So while we wait for someone to give the guy what he needs to make another film, we dug up this retro interview with Linklater where he talks about the making of
Dazed and Confused for almost a half hour. It's a great relaxed no-budget interview that really showcases Linklater and gives some dynamite insight into the making of the film. Says Linklater, "It's pretty much a teenage male perspective because in my opinion males have this raging energy at that time. But if you listen closely, the women really are more interesting characters -- the little bits of dialogue you get, in the girl's bathroom, there's a lot more interesting thought going on there."
Watch the full interviews after the jump.
Continue reading Interesting Interviews: Richard Linklater Discusses 'Dazed and Confused'
Posted Nov 13th 2009 8:15PM by Matt Bradshaw
Filed under: Trailer Trash, Trailers and Clips
Kick-Ass
Why don't people in real life put on a costume, get a few gadgets and fight crime? Because the idea is completely bonkers. This flick based on a comic book by Mark Millar features a group of young people putting on the spandex and, as the title suggests, kicking some ass. This looks pretty cool, but we'll find out for sure on April 16.
Extraordinary Measures
Brendan Fraser stars as a father whose children are dying from a genetic disorder. Desperate to save them he funds the work of an eccentric but brilliant researcher (Harrison Ford) in hopes of finding a cure. I suspect this will be a good old fashioned tear-jerker. If that's your cup of tea you can check it out on January 22.
Grown Ups
A bunch of
SNL veterans (Adam Sandler, Rob Schneider, Chris Rock and David Spade) along with that guy from
King of Queens (Kevin James) play old friends reuniting for the first time in 30 years. The "reunion" formula is one of those cliches I remember my Writing Arts teacher warning me away from, and it doesn't look like they're doing anything especially original with it. This will be out on June 25.
(Watch the trailer after the jump)
Continue reading Trailer Park: Kicking Some Extraordinary Ass
Posted Nov 13th 2009 10:32AM by Jen Yamato
Filed under: Animation, New Releases, Celebrities and Controversy, New in Theaters, DIY/Filmmaking, Trailers and Clips
In this month's
Fantastic Mr. Fox,
Wes Anderson makes his first foray into animation with an adaptation of Roald Dahl's story about an upwardly mobile fox (George Clooney) whose drive to steal chickens threatens his family and community. While it's Anderson's first non-live action project,
Mr. Fox nonetheless shares qualities with his other films, including a meticulous attention to detail, stylish design, and idiosyncratic characters. So how did the live-action auteur tackle the challenges of stop-motion filmmaking, especially considering that he spent much of the production in an entirely different country than his crew?
HitFix has a fun little glimpse of the director at work that shows us how Anderson collaborated with his animation team to bring the characters of
Fantastic Mr. Fox to life. From his base in Paris, Anderson shot video storyboards of scenes and character movements by acting out scenes and blocking himself. He then emailed the videos to his crew in London, who took their visual cues from Anderson's performances. The end results, when viewed side-by-side with Anderson's versions, are near identical.
Hit the jump and watch Anderson as Mr. Fox, Kristofferson, Ash, and other characters from The Fantastic Mr. Fox. Continue reading Watch This: Wes Anderson Acts Out 'Mr. Fox' Storyboards
Posted Nov 13th 2009 9:48AM by Monika Bartyzel
Filed under: Comedy, Romance, Trailers and Clips
Who started the whole cliche where an uptight American woman hits Ireland and finds out how to loosen up by a sexy, foreign man? There's something in the water over there in Hollywood's version of the country that makes every bloody romantic comedy feature this premise. It's not as bad as something like
The Ugly Truth, that's for sure, but it pretty darned blatant.
Following in the footsteps of
Matchmaker, P.S. I Love You, and other romantic fare, MSN has debuted a trailer for
Leap Year (check it out after the jump), the film where
Matthew Goode gets to recover from the trauma of losing his new wife to a female florist (
Imagine Me and You), and steal a desperate
Amy Adams from the likes of
Adam Scott. Now granted, she is on her way to Dublin and meets the man in Wales, but they're still heading to the land of shamrocks.
I guess there's just a strong Irish gene that burrows deep within a man and lets him see when a self-absorbed foreign woman will be the girl of his dreams, allowing him to be the romantic savior showing her untapped inner potential and true romance and security. But why, exactly, is
Anand Tucker -- who brought us
Hilary and Jackie, Shopgirl, And When Did You Last See Your Father?, and
Red Riding: 1983 -- directing this schlock?
Check it out, if you dare, after the jump, and beware: it shows
a lot. Then again, this does look like a typical romcom, so we already know how it turns out, right?
Continue reading Loosening Up More Uptight Women w/ 'Leap Year'
Posted Nov 12th 2009 9:32PM by Eric D. Snider
Filed under: Fandom, Tom Cruise, Trailers and Clips
One of the most iconic movie images of the 1980s is that of Tom Cruise, clad only in socks, underwear, dress shirt, and sunglasses, dancing to the strains of Bob Seger's "Old Time Rock 'n' Roll" in
Risky Business. Guitar Hero recreated the scene for a series of commercials last year, which apparently put it into the heads of quite a few young people that they should do the same thing in their own homes. As the video evidence shows, this was approximately as bad an idea as it sounds like it would be.
We've chosen five of the worst ones and posted them after the jump. The first is courtesy of
BuzzFeed, and it's the best reminder that the film was called
Risky Business for a reason. I love that even though the girl seems to be legitimately injured, they still posted it on YouTube. Why let a simple thing like a concussion keep you from Internet fame?
That one, and four other bad ones, after the jump.
Continue reading Watch: The 5 Worst Homemade 'Risky Business' Dance Videos
Posted Nov 12th 2009 4:32PM by Jen Yamato
Filed under: Drama, Independent, Newsstand, Movie Marketing, Cinematical Indie, Trailers and Clips
She's about to open the
second-biggest film of her career, so what better timing than now to point you to a new peek at
Kristen Stewart's next non-
Twilight film? Check out the new trailer for
The Yellow Handkerchief, a Sundance entry that follows three strangers in post-Katrina Louisiana – Martine (Stewart), Gordy (
Eddie Redmayne), and Brett (
William Hurt) -- as they search together for life, love, and the perfect Southern accent.
Ok, so it seems the Southern slangin' is done primarily by Stewart, while Brit Redmayne goes American and Hurt rocks the ex-con handlebar mustache. As they embark on a road trip together, the two teens listen to Brett's tale of the woman who got away (
Maria Bello) while they navigate the murky waters of young love. (Read Erik Davis's Sundance review
here.)
Watch the trailer after the jump. Continue reading Kristen Stewart Goes Southern in 'The Yellow Handkerchief'
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